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Responsible for increasing this federal deficit? the debt in this year going from 600 billion to over a trillion dollars. who do you blame for that? are you blaming the president? >> no. the american people are going to look at congress and say, you guys, we gave you the majority for a reason, so were going to take a hit on this. again, wolf, you and i have talked about this. this is going up regardless of who is in the white house until congress -- >> let me interrupt, congressman, because as y...

Shutdown. i assume theyll do that. one of the conservatives on the outside is joining us right now, republican congressman ted yelo on the floor. congressman, thank you for being here. >> good to be here, wolf. >> its official position on twitter. hfc opposes the caps deal. we support funding our troops but growing the size of the government by 13% is not what the voters sent us here to do. thats in contrast to what we heard from speaker paul ryan. he said he believes there would be enough votes...

Until the end of march. certainly the republican leadership and the democratic leadership in the senate want it. heres what a lot of your fiscal conservatives like you -- >> i agree with that. we need that longer term. >> -- probably find it hard to believe that there is a republican in the white house, republican leadership in the senate, republican leadership in the house. the last couple years, mostly during the obama administration, the federal annual budget deficit was around 500 or $600 bi...